Better eating is a desire shared by many in the strongly growing middle class of the world’s emerging markets – often accompanied by a desire for convenient preparation with attractive cookware. The Swiss family company Kuhn Rikon, which specializes in cookware and cooking utensils, is taking full advantage of this trend. CEO Tobias Gerfin, speaker at the Swiss Foreign Trade Forum, provides tips on how SMEs can find good partners and be successful in a ‘rising middle class’ market.
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France has been continually increasing its efforts to promote energy efficiency in recent years, but still has a lot of catching up to do compared with Germany, for instance, making the market all the more interesting. It is also attractive to Swiss companies, as demonstrated by a new study by Switzerland Global Enterprise.
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Chile wants to intensify the development of the country’s infrastructure in the coming years. According to a recently published infrastructure plan, a sum of approximately USD 28 billion is to be invested in new projects by 2021.
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